Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Marva Collins (American Educator)

Marva Delores Collins (b.1936) was an American educator who started Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois in 1975.

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Marva Collins
Topics: Character

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn’t-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
Marva Collins
Topics: Past, The Past

The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins
Topics: Teaching

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Marva Collins
Topics: Determination

I am a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children.
Marva Collins
Topics: Teachers

Can’t make a mistake, can’t make anything.
Marva Collins
Topics: Creativity

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Marva Collins
Topics: Excellence

Success doesn’t come to you—you go to it.
Marva Collins
Topics: Strength, Success & Failure, Opportunity, Success

Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Marva Collins
Topics: Teachers

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
Marva Collins

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